Improvement in stoves



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VAN & BARRINGER.

Cooking Stove.

Patented May 10,1859.

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' Cooking Stove.

Patented May 10, 1859.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN VAN AND HENRY V. BARRINGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

EMPROVEMENT IN ISTOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,963, dated May 10, 1859.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN VAN and HENRY V. 'BARRINGER, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking Stoves and Ranges; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in doors for cooking stoves and ranges, described, specified, and represented as follows:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stove provided with the improved door, which is shown as being closed. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, showing the door as being dropped so as to form a hearth. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the stove-front and the arrangement of the fire-grate and adjustable door.

A represents a cooking-stove with its general parts arranged in the ordinary manner.

his a combined adjustable door and hearth, formed with a sliding register g, and hinged to the stove-front at d in such manner that it may be easily dropped so as to form a hearth, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, that may be used for roasting and broiling purposes, as shown in Fig. 2.

r r are legs hinged to the upper part of the door It in such manner as to lie close to the stove when the door It is closed, and at the same time to serve as supporting-legs to the hearth when the door h is dropped to the position to form the same.

Z) is a broiler, which may be used while the door h is closed by opening the register g to allow the smoke to pass within the stove.

R is a roasting-oven. (Shown to illustrate the practical operation of the door h used as a hearth.)

The advantages of this stove are great economy in space and increased facilities in cooking, allowing roasting and baking to be accomplished at the same time without material loss of heat, and when the hearth'or door h is not required for cooking purposes it may be closed, thus affording the room occupied by it for other purposes.

We do not claim to be the first to construct and use a swinging dooror hearth with stoves; but,

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The swinging grated door or hearth h and sliding and swinging register g, in combination with the supporting-legs r r and stove A, arranged and operating substantially as and for'the purposes herein set forth.

JOHN VAN. HENRY v. BARRINGER.

Witnesses:

H. E. CLIFTON, J. J. '1. BALL. 

